Yet Another (Lousy) Panem Map

[deathmallow]

Here's my LOLworthy 15 minute crappy computer-done job showing the locations and relative sizes of the districts I'm using for AFAF geography--I've used principally natural resource considerations in the locations, as well as the few canon clues we have. It's a rough job and the hand-drawn one would be far more precise, but this will give you an

Comments

[jocelyncs]

For the most part, I endorse your Panem worldview more than the "official" one, though I do agree with the "official" mapmakers and aimmyarrowshigh that Florida will not exist anymore. (And I say that as a Floridian.) I like the Mexican slab in the "official" map for District 4 because its coasts would give them access to Atlantic and Pacific waters as well as the Gulf of Mexico and probably a lot of freshwater as well in the rainforest regions of the tropics.

A theory I'm running with in my novel-length fic is that District 4 includes a lot of islands formed by the former North American coastline (possibly including a few areas of former Florida).

[deathmallow]

The prospective sea level rise, even for the majority of the Earth's ice caps melting, is surprisingly negligible compared to most of the US coast's elevation beyond the first few miles inland. Some of South Florida might be toast, but past Lake Okeechobee will generally be OK.

And I don't buy the "sea level rise" anyway because the warming necessary for that directly contradicts the effects of nuclear war/nuclear winter. Nuclear war seems far more likely for the implied apocalyptic scenario, famine, etc. that would have caused Panem. Suzanne Collins may not have done her scientific homework here and just tried to come up with the most apocalyptic scenario possible, even if the logic isn't sound.

So I'm basically ignoring sea level rise entirely since it's minimal and illogical.

[jocelyncs]

Sea level rise isn't the only factor for this state - erosion is a major one. The sea isn't just rising, the state is sinking! We're nothing but sand, so even if the sea level doesn't go up to any major degree, most geological/geographical models indicate Florida will shrink into a sliver and eventually disappear.

[deathmallow]

Sorry, forgot the numbers. You'd have to have about a 60m sea level rise to drown almost all of Florida. That would require essentially melting every scrap of ice on Antarctica. Given that Twelve still has descriptions of experiencing winter, and Two, and the Capitol, that also greatly resemble current climate in those regions, obviously global climate has not changed significantly, let alone to that degree

[angylinni]

where are you locating the district center in 1? Idaho and N Utah are pretty empty, as is N Nevada. lots of tiny towns but the only really big ones are boise on the west side and IF/Pocatello on the east. Just curious. :P

[deathmallow]

Boise. Some of them may be slightly off because I was eyeballing placement after I (badly) "painted" the map.

[mathgirl24]

Works for me!

13 has always been a good number for me, so I like that I'm there. I'll take Boggs if Hazelle gets tired of him.

[deathmallow]

LOL. Boggs is awesome. And if Hayzelle happened, you are more than welcome to Boggs. ;)

[mathgirl24]

YES!!!!!

[deathmallow]

BOGGS! :D

[marble_sharp]

Agreeing with this version a lot more than the movie's. The placement makes so much more sense, especially with D7, 12, and 13. Though I agree with jocelyncs that D4 would have territory on both coasts.

[deathmallow]

Not sure the demand for fish--almost exclusively for the Capitol market--is big enough to warrant bicoastal operations, though? Port landings of catch in the Gulf of Mexico would currently be more than enough for that.

Not to mention the hassle of either maintaining a large "useless" interior space for a fisheries district to bridge between the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, or else dealing with the logistics of Four being split into two discontinuous halves.

[sabaceanbabe]

This map is very much in line with what I've been picturing, with the exception that I like the idea (from aimmyarrowshigh's map) of 4 extending more into the high desert of Texas. I'd also never pictured it as going all the way over to Florida, but rather extending further south along the coast of Mexico. But meh. Details, details.

I'm saving your map for future reference. :D

ETA: Look at that. The little bitch told me it couldn't post and then posted the comment anyway. *kicks LJ*

[deathmallow]

*PUNTS* Will answer on your second one?